February 3, 2017

Mosaic Heart – Valentine’s Inspired Decor

Mosaics are one of my favorite things to make, I love the idea of laying pieces together like a puzzle. An easy way to make a mosaic is to use beautifully designed papers.

For this project I used 5 decorative papers, any size will do and scraps can be used for this, because it takes very little decorative paper.

I cut the paper into 1 inch squares and then cut those squares in half, into triangles.

I cut 2 squares for each color of paper for a total of 10 squares – totaling 20 triangles

I laid the pieces of my heart together into rows, starting with the bottom. Once I had a row in place, I glued the pieces down with glue stick one at a time.

I glued my heart on an 8×10 inch piece of black fadeless paper. This way it would fit easily into a frame. After gluing all of the pieces down, I felt that there ended up being too much empty space in the background. I decided to make a border with my some of my leftover decorative paper.

I cut 1 inch wide strips of the black and white paper and used a decorative edged scissors for the inside cut. Finding that this also wasn’t enough to satisfy my creativity…I tucked a pink rectangle in each corner, so they showed up like triangles to echo my triangle mosaic design.